"Kathy" wrote in message
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"Christina Websell" wrote in message
"Kathy" wrote in message
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We have a problem with snakes on our field this year. People are
finding them tangled up in netting around various crops. Unfortunately
we don't always get there in time to effect a release.

Anyone else got this problem?


What sort of snakes?
Tina



Grass snakes.

If you think the netting is a problem, then there are limited options.

If you want to keep it, you probably need to patrol it regularly to check
for snakes so you can release them. That would probably mean twice a day so
that might mean that you need to assess how much you value your time over
the life of the snakes. The other options would be to remove it, or,
alternatively, to lift it up off the ground a bit so the snakes can slide
under it but then those options probably wouldn't work too well for any form
of crop protection.

But, as I mentioned in my earlier response and which only seems to have
resulted in the thread immediatly moving away from the question asked, this
form of netting is used, and is well known as being a very effective way of
trapping snakes, ergo.......